Nathaniel Jones
Senior Consultant at Wentworth Institute of Technology
Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNathaniel Jones is a building scientist, educator, and senior consultant with a decade of experience translating engineering and computer science into tools that improve occupant comfort, health, and design decision-making. Based at Arup in Lexington, MA, he leads advanced analyses—from whole-building daylight and glare studies to CFD-based indoor air quality and airborne pathogen modeling—while developing practical simulation tools used by architects and engineers worldwide. He created comfort.arup.com’s thermal comfort algorithms and Accelerad, an open-source GPU lighting and daylighting suite born from his MIT research, bringing real-time and high-performance computation into design workflows. A practiced educator at institutions including Wentworth and Parsons, he blends research, teaching, and production work to push transient comfort analysis and machine learning into practice. Notably, his background spans architecture, civil engineering, and a PhD in building sciences, giving him a rare combination of domain breadth and computational depth.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology at MITJohns Hopkins UniversityCross-Registered, Environmental Design, Cross-Registered, Environmental Design at Maryland Institute College of ArtMArch, Architecture, MArch, Architecture at Cornell University
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Github contributions (5)
nljones/Accelerad
Dec 2017 - Apr 2020
Accelerad is a free suite of GPU-enabled programs for lighting and daylighting analysis and visualization.
Contributions:8 releases, 86 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 4 months
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MITSustainableDesignLab/Daysim
Jan 2018 - Oct 2021
DAYSIM is a validated, RADIANCE-based daylighting analysis software that models the annual amount of daylight in and around buildings.
Contributions:13 commits, 82 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
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